Meanings
blackfolk1
alternative Blackfolk
- informalpluralplural onlyBlack people.
Coordinate term: whitefolk
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Most Integrationists do not see America as a powerful but degenerate world imperialist. Those Integrationist[s] who do see this feel that by injecting blackfolk into the existing American framework they will cool out the degeneracy.
1968 September–October, S. E. Anderson, “Roads to Black Liberation: The Fragmented Movement”, in Negro Digest, volume 17, numbers 11–12, page 5All forced conversations in America about race, sex and celebrity are inevitably framed by horror and absurdity, history and the modern day. Because of this, many of my people – as in American born Blackfolk – refuse to countenance moral or legal absolutes when allegations of our stars committing sexual assault hit the news.
2019 March 1, Greg Tate et al., “'Too big to cancel': can we still listen to Michael Jackson?”, in The Guardian
Blackfolk2
- pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of blackfolk.
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“blackfolk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blackfolk. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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